a cool start to the first morning of summer but at least it's sunny after a very wet day yesterday.
cool, cloudy and breezy today in Meath, feels very autumnal, temperature only 17C but feels more like 13C.
The best word to describe today is fresh.
Yes it's cooler, but it amazing to breath in that fresh air after all the heat and humidity.
Now I'll take a few days of this then I'll have the heat back please😉.
Back to the ordinary boring weather for the foreseeable. Our default weather. No 30 degree heat to bask in now or temperature watching to see if records are broke. No watching lightning maps.org for approaching thunderstorms. No spectacular lightning to video and watch. What are we going to do at all? All we are left with now is bland uninteresting weather. Which makes us appreciate weather events all the more. Whenever the next event of interest will be? Who knows?
Withdrawal symptoms setting in already!!!
Yeah its a bit like being on a right good drinking session and then the hangover. Or coming back from a foreign holiday can be a bit of a downer for a day or two. What goes up must come down. Anyway one gets used to the mundane within a few days until the next event and the cycle repeats itself. Don't get me wrong I have other interests although these tend to shelved when there's a big weather event
I'm really missing the unbroken sunshine and mid to high twenties already. Could do with another 2 or 3 weeks of it till mid September. The mid autumn to late Spring period of chilly temperatures is long enough as it is.
Great day in Kerry, about 18C, welcome breeze , enjoying the freshness .
Pic taken early afternoon.
Heading to Kerry next week and I'd take that! Not looking great at the moment though.
A beautiful refreshing day in SW Donegal. Blue skies mostly with a fresh breeze taking the edge of the temperatures. Great drying. Apart from some light rain the other night, from the Donegal Bay thunderstorm, we have had little rain.
I love these type of early autumn days. Sitting out in the garden in the shelter and its lovely although I do have the fleece beside me on the chair.
Certainly no sun in Meath today, a thick blanket of low hanging cloud all day and feeling very cool in that breeze. Probably the coldest day we've had since June.
Not great the weekend, looking showery or prolonged spells of rain on Sat with a possible more prolonged wet day on Sun and some frontal rain possible in the early days but tonight the ECM looking half decent with a ridge building and less rain as the week goes on hopefully , might even be pleasant, would be great if the HP moved in over us at the end of the week, GFS slower to build the hp but gets there eventually . Anyway enjoy your spell in Kerry.
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You might be the one to answer this Gonzo but it's a question that's been bugging me...:
At the end of the last three heatwaves in a row we've gone from temps of 28-31C down to 15-17C within two days.
A 14C swing.
Last month, today and last August too.
Why the dramatic swing from one extreme to the other?
You'd expect maybe a gradual decline via the low twenties, or is that too much to ask for? 🤣
Basically after the 3 hot spells this summer they got broken down really quickly by low pressures swinging down from the Iceland/Greenland direction with northerly winds attached to them so a huge transformative flip in upper air temperatures from +15 to +20 down to around 0 to +3 uppers in a very short period of time, a matter of hours.
Yesterday afternoon the humidity and temperature felt like high twenties, fast forward 24 hours later and today felt like a mid to late October afternoon. The temperatures will begin to stage a slow recovery from tomorrow although Saturday looks every bit as chilly as today if not colder.
Noticed when heading out of the estate today the amount of leaves on the ground. You would think it was Autumn judging by the colour of the leaves on some of the trees and then others had a carpet of brown leaves under them .
I thought Saturday was supposed to be a generally dry day across the country,but looking at the weather after the news it looks quite wet
You’re not asking me but I’ll give my opinion anyway.
extremes of temperatures (whether summer or winter) are not normal in this country so a swing of around 14c within a day or two as temperatures return to normal isn’t unusual and is to be expected.
I remember around Christmas 2010 temperatures went from -17c to +12c in about two days!
BBC News 24 forecast tonight at 21.55 suggesting more very warm weather on the way to see out the summer, I sure we can tap into that too?
Agreed. Christmas 2010 was another example of the see-saw effect.
I suppose whenever we do get extreme of heat or cold, it inevitably means that the opposite airmass has been pent up somewhere nearby, biding its time to bring us crashing back down to the climatic norm (very quickly!)
Some trees leaves have been browning due to drought. Still a little early for most trees to start shedding leaves.
Really felt the cold today, not because it was actually cold but the fact I think our bodies have climatized
It's baltic feeling out there in south Laois tonight, a light but noticeable northerly breeze of 3mph/5kph and temperatures of just above 10c.
Tonight really reminds me of when you come back from a week in Spain and get dumped on the edge of the runway at Dublin airport before midnight and try to make your way back on foot to the gate!
We have a week of autumnal conditons to come (an unsettled wet weekend) and possibly more rain on Monday. After that hopefully things will improve alot and we should be back into low twenties at the very least if this high pressure begins to take hold from next Tuesday. The next 7 days will be basically a repeat of the first and final week of June. We just have to get through this.
Totally agree! Feels really chilly this morning! And no real heat to look forward to.....wah, wah!
today looks good😎 - make the most of it folks
Beautiful morning in Galway. I have noticed that apples have ripened early this year.
Definitely make the most of today's dry weather, a bit of a washout to come over the next 5 days with no shortage of rain or showers, up to 40mm of rain could fall in places between tomorrow and Tuesday. The drought is well and truly over.
There are signs things may improve towards the second half of next week for the final week of August. After that September may break down quickly into an unsettled Atlantic dominated pattern and we're into autumn by that point.
Nothing nice about today in NCD.
Dull with a light drizzle all morning.
Yup, pretty dismal out. Mad to think there was not a single cloud in the sky this very day last week.
I haven't seen the sun once since Monday afternoon, a total and uttter cloudfest all yesterday and today. First half of August was amazing but this second half is more the Augusts we remember over the past 20 years and will hurt the score at the end of the month somewhat.
Lovely sunshine at the moment and feeling lovely and warm as well
Lovely sunshine and pleasantly warm here in Mayo,helped by the fact there's zero breeze,about 17 degrees.Forecast rain for later but enjoying it while we can.
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